{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6332", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 6332, "subject": "reading Williams", "messages": 4, "voices": 4, "first": "2012-12-17T16:51:44+00:00", "last": "2012-12-19T22:49:53+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Stephen Case", "address": "scase1 at nd.edu" }, "date": "2012-12-17T16:51:44+00:00", "subject": "(urth) reading Williams", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I've said that reading Williams was what taught/trained me to be able to\nread and appreciate Lafferty. I've read GREATER TRUMPS, PLACE OF THE LION,\nand DESCENT INTO HELL, and I think I like the last of these the best.\n\nAlso: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the potentiality\nof a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something more\nto say about this than simply how much we'd all love one.\n\n-Steve" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Gwern Branwen", "address": "gwern0 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2012-12-17T17:02:55+00:00", "subject": "(urth) reading Williams", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Case wrote:\nAlso: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the potentiality\nof a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something more\nto say about this than simply how much we'd all love one." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really\ngood one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't\na flake?\n\nAnyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them\nprobably shouldn't be doing it in the first place." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net" } ] }, { "message_id": "<5B2F3A28-30A4-4257-AF34-6492939DA1D3@yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Marc Aramini", "address": "marcaramini at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2012-12-17T17:18:01+00:00", "subject": "(urth) reading Williams", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I have about a a decade and a half worth of correspondence with Wolfe but would not feel comfortable taking on a task like that. Biography doesn't interest me as a writer, and much of the last eight years communication has been personal in nature, less about his art. He strikes me as approachable but private. \nSent from my iPhone" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:\nOn Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Case wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Also: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the potentiality\nof a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something more\nto say about this than simply how much we'd all love one." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really\ngood one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't\na flake?\n\nAnyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them\nprobably shouldn't be doing it in the first place.\n\n-- \ngwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Larry Miller", "address": "decanus1284 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2012-12-19T22:49:53+00:00", "subject": "(urth) reading Williams", "in_reply_to": "<5B2F3A28-30A4-4257-AF34-6492939DA1D3@yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "A friend of mine and I have discussed doing a video documentary about Wolfe\nbut it would need interviews with him to work and Ive never been able to\nfind the right channels to go about doing it." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:\nI have about a a decade and a half worth of correspondence with Wolfe but\nwould not feel comfortable taking on a task like that. Biography doesn't\ninterest me as a writer, and much of the last eight years communication has\nbeen personal in nature, less about his art. He strikes me as approachable\nbut private.\nSent from my iPhone\n\nOn Dec 17, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Case wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "Also: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the\npotentiality\nof a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something\nmore\nto say about this than simply how much we'd all love one." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really\ngood one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't\na flake?\n\nAnyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them\nprobably shouldn't be doing it in the first place.\n\n--\ngwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }